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Mainframe, Interrupted: Joan Greenbaum on the Early Days of Tech Worker Organizing

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A conversation about organizing tech workers before it was cool.

Mainframe, Interrupted: Joan Greenbaum on the Early Days of Tech Worker Organizing In 1969, a collective called Computer People for Peace (CPP) petitioned the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to adopt the following proposals as part of its national policy: We oppose the war in Vietnam, U.S. military presence throughout the world, and economic and political subversion of other nations. We oppose discrimination as practiced in the computer field. We oppose the establishment of mass data banks which pose a threat to our privacy. Everything old is new again. Joan Greenbaum was a member of

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